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No. 663,437. Patented Dec. ll, I900.

J. F. HILL.

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UNTTnn STATES PATENT 01mins,

JAMES F. HILL, OF STOUGHTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE R. B. GROVER & COMPANY, OF BROCKTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

DEMONSTRATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent NO. 663,437, dated December 11, 1900.

Application filed April 13, 1900. Serial No. 12,701. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JAMES F. HILL, of Stoughton, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Demonstrators, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has relation to display or advertising forms or demonstrators for boots, slippers, or shoes; and the nature of the invention and in what it consists Will be set forth in the following specification and claim, taken in connection with the accompanying drawing.

The said drawing represents a perspective view of an advertising or display form or demonstrator embodying my invention, and upon examination it will be seen that at a a shoe is illustrated, which may be of any desired style, size, or shape. The vamp or upper is cut away, as at Z), so as to expose the interior of the shoe and the edge 0 of the inner sole. In the shoe is a facsimile of a human foot, it being in the form of a plaster or papier-mach cast, and the upper is cut away sufficiently to disclose the toes and to show the space between the ends of the toes and the sides of the great'and little toes and the edge of the insole. The rear portion of the Preferably the model or facsimile of the human foot is of a color which furnishes a sharp contrast with the color of the shoe, so as to draw attention to the contour of the end of the shoe as compared with the line of the ends of the toes, and as it is in the position in the shoe assumed by the human foot it well illustrates the desirable feature of the shoe.

Having thus explained the nature of my invention and described a way of constructing and using the same, though without attempting to set forth all of the forms in which it may be made or all of the modes of its use, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters ,Patent, is'

A demonstrator, or display-form, consisting of a shoe having the vamp or upper cut away at the toe end, and a facsimile or model of more or less of a human foot, in the position in said shoe assumed by a human foot, the toes of the facsimile or model being exposed by the cut-away portion of the vamp or upper.

In testimony whereof I have aflixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES F. HILL.

Witnesses:

A. D. HARRISON, H. L. ROBBINS. 

